"guy with a great heart and a loving soul."" Henry Diltz, who photographed Randy extensively with the Eagles and in the early 1980s during Randy's solo career, says, ""Randy Meisner was a very gentle soul. Pisces. A quiet and friendly guy. No aggressive vibe at all. Very sweet. He was so there and open."" His shyness has also been remarked upon, and may have caused him some difficulty as a performer at times. ""Randy was extremely uncomfortable with so-called superstardom,"" Don Henley told author Marc Eliot. In 1988 a man named Lewis Peter ""Buddy"" Morgan started impersonating Meisner. He had"
"come from Michigan and formed Longbranch Pennywhistle; they had met in 1970 at The Troubadour in Los Angeles and became acquainted through their mutual record label, Amos Records. Randy Meisner, who had been working with Ricky Nelson's backing band, the Stone Canyon Band, and Bernie Leadon, a veteran of the Flying Burrito Brothers, also later joined Ronstadt's group of performers for her summer tour promoting the ""Silk Purse"" album. While on the tour, Frey and Henley decided to form a band together and informed Ronstadt of their intention. Frey later credited Ronstadt with suggesting Leadon for the band, and arranging"
"Initiative, which is a program aimed at supporting the growth of educational opportunities for girls in Guatemala. The National (band) The National is an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 1999. The band consists of Matt Berninger (vocals), Aaron Dessner (guitar, keyboards), Bryce Dessner (guitar), Scott Devendorf (bass) and Bryan Devendorf (drums). Founded by Berninger, Aaron Dessner, and Scott and Bryan Devendorf, The National released their self-titled debut album, ""The National"" (2001), on Brassland Records, an independent record label founded by Dessner and his twin brother, Bryce Dessner. Bryce, who had assisted in recording the album, soon joined"
"American Artists Club The American Artists Club, Munich was a private art group for American artists living and working in Munich, Germany. It was started in January 1914, just before World War I broke out. The private group met every Friday evening at the Kiinstler Cafe Glasl at the corners of Theresien and Amalien Streets. There were sixteen founding members of the art colony including E. Martin Hennings, Victor Higgins, Walter Ufer, Louis Grell, J. Ernst Dean, Herbert Martin, John M. Imhof, Bennet S. Linder, O. R. Korder, Richard Fayerweather Babcock, Frank Duveneck, Carl Bohnen, Emil Frie, Carl Hoeckner and"
"1983 and 1984. Dennis McGiffen, who also had ties to Aryan Nations, formed a group called ""The New Order"", inspired by Mathews' group. The members were arrested before they could follow through with their violent plans. Buford O. Furrow, Jr., who was convicted of both the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting and the murder of Filipino American postal worker Joseph Ileto, had spent some time at the Aryan Nations compound working as a security guard. Aryan Nations Aryan Nations is an anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, white supremacist terrorist organization originally based in Hayden, Idaho. Richard Girnt Butler founded the group in"
"Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. Leadon attended Gainesville High School, where he met classmate and future Eagles lead guitarist Don Felder, whose band, the Continentals, had just lost guitarist Stephen Stills. Upon Leadon's joining the group, rechristened Maundy Quintet, they gigged locally, even sharing the bill with future Gainesville legend Tom Petty and his early band the Epics (a band that also included Bernie's brother, musician Tom Leadon). A call from ex-Squirrel Barker Larry Murray in 1967, to join his fledgling psychedelic country-folk group, Hearts & Flowers, was enticing enough for Leadon to return to California,"
"the original founding members ended up in Chicago affiliated with the Art Institute of Chicago and exhibited together frequently. Members E. Martin Hennings, Walter Ufer and Victor Higgins went on to become early members of the Taos Society of Artists. American Artists Club The American Artists Club, Munich was a private art group for American artists living and working in Munich, Germany. It was started in January 1914, just before World War I broke out. The private group met every Friday evening at the Kiinstler Cafe Glasl at the corners of Theresien and Amalien Streets. There were sixteen founding members"
"the main US-based organizations created secessionist groups with more radical agendas, among them Kaldenberg's ""Pagan Revival"" network and Jost Turner's ""National Socialist Kindred"". Kaplan and Weinberg note that ""the religious component of the Euro-American radical right subculture includes both pagan and Christian or pseudo-Christian elements,"" locating Satanist or Odinist Nazi Skinhead sects in the United States (Ben Klassen's atheistic Creativity Movement), Britain (David Myatt), Germany, Scandinavia and South Africa. In the United States, some white supremacist groups and terrorists—including several with neo-fascist or neo-Nazi leanings—have built their ideologies around pagan religious imagery, including Odinism or Wotanism. One such group is"
"created secessionist groups with more radical agendas, among them Kaldenberg's ""Pagan Revival"" network and Jost Turner's ""National Socialist Kindred"". Kaplan and Weinberg note that ""the religious component of the Euro-American radical right subculture includes both pagan and Christian or pseudo-Christian elements,"" locating Satanist or Odinist Nazi Skinhead sects in the United States (Ben Klassen's atheistic Creativity Movement), Britain (David Myatt), Germany, Scandinavia and South Africa. In the United States, some white supremacist groups and terrorists—including several with neo-fascist or neo-Nazi leanings—have built their ideologies around pagan religious imagery, including Odinism or Wotanism. One such group is the White Order of"
"Bridgers, Lisa Hannigan, JT Bates, and Kate Stables, among others. The majority of the album was recorded in Dessner's shed studio in Hudson Valley, New York, where Dessner also recorded The National album ""Sleep Well Beast"". Big Red Machine (band) Big Red Machine is an American experimental indie folk rock band that began as a collaboration between musicians Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon. Big Red Machine began as a musical collaboration in 2008, when Aaron Dessner messaged Justin Vernon on MySpace, without any prior personal meeting. Dessner sent Vernon an instrumental idea for a collaborative album named Dark Was the"
"Jay and the Americans Jay and the Americans are an American pop rock group popular in the 1960s. Their initial line-up consisted of John ""Jay"" Traynor, Howard Kane (né Kirschenbaum), Kenny Vance (né Rosenberg) and Sandy Deanne (né Yaguda), though their greatest success on the charts came after Traynor had been replaced as lead singer by Jay Black. They were discovered while performing in student venues at New York University in the late 1950s. They auditioned for Leiber and Stoller, who gave the group its name. With Jay Traynor singing lead, they first hit the Billboard charts in 1962 with"
"brain, a death mask was made of Baader. The brains of all but Meinhof have apparently been lost and cannot be accounted for by German authorities. Andreas Baader Berndt Andreas Baader (6 May 1943 – 18 October 1977) was one of the first leaders of the West German left-wing militant organization Red Army Faction, also commonly known as ""the Baader-Meinhof Group"". Andreas Baader was born in Munich on 6 May 1943. He was the only child of historian and archivist Dr. Berndt Phillipp Baader and Anneliese Hermine ""Nina"" (Kröcher). Berndt Baader served in the German Wehrmacht, was captured on the"
"when they visited New York State Assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn's house in Queens at midnight to protest her stance on names reporting. The group grew out of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (Act Up), Sex Panic!, and the October 19th Coalition. As co-founder Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore wrote, after the success of the political funeral for Matthew Shepard, ""we tried to create a large-scale radical queer activist group, but we got stuck in endless process and the meetings got smaller and smaller, [so] some of us formed an affinity group called Fed Up Queers to do smaller, targeted actions. ... Originally"
"Red Army Faction The Red Army Faction (RAF; German: '), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group or Baader-Meinhof Gang (), was a West German far-left militant organization founded in 1970. Key early figures included Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler and Ulrike Meinhof, among others. Ulrike Meinhof was involved in Baader's escape from jail in 1970. The West German government as well as most Western media and literature considered the Red Army Faction to be a terrorist organization. The Red Army Faction engaged in a series of bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, bank robberies and shoot-outs with police over the course of"
"what we're here to do."""" — Sanford Meisner Meisner developed this technique after working with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler at the Group Theatre and while working as head of the acting program at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse. He continued its refinement for fifty years. """"In 1935, Sanford Meisner, one of the founding members of The Group Theatre (along with Stella Adler, Bobby Lewis, Harold Clurman, and Lee Strasberg), joined the faculty of The Neighborhood Playhouse. Over the years, he developed and refined what is now known as the Meisner Technique, a step-by-step procedure of self-investigation for the actor"
"Bund was to consist only of American citizens of German descent. Friends of New Germany Friends of New Germany, sometimes called Friends of the New Germany, was an organization founded in the United States by German immigrants to support Nazism and Nazi Germany. Nazis outside of Germany made considerable efforts to establish an American counterpart organization. Recruiting commenced as early as 1924 with the formation of the Free Society of Teutonia. In May 1933, the Nazi Deputy Führer, Rudolf Hess, gave German immigrant and German Nazi Party member Heinz Spanknöbel authority to form an American Nazi organization. The result was"
"Aryan Nations Aryan Nations is an anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, white supremacist terrorist organization originally based in Hayden, Idaho. Richard Girnt Butler founded the group in the 1970s, as an arm of the Christian Identity organization Church of Jesus Christ–Christian. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has called Aryan Nations a ""terrorist threat"", and the RAND Corporation has called it the ""first truly nationwide terrorist network"" in the United States. The origin of Aryan Nations is in the teachings of Wesley A. Swift, a significant figure in the early Christian Identity movement. Swift combined British Israelism, extreme antisemitism and political militancy. He founded"
"The National (band) The National is an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 1999. The band consists of Matt Berninger (vocals), Aaron Dessner (guitar, keyboards), Bryce Dessner (guitar), Scott Devendorf (bass) and Bryan Devendorf (drums). Founded by Berninger, Aaron Dessner, and Scott and Bryan Devendorf, The National released their self-titled debut album, ""The National"" (2001), on Brassland Records, an independent record label founded by Dessner and his twin brother, Bryce Dessner. Bryce, who had assisted in recording the album, soon joined the band, participating as a full member in the recording of its follow-up, ""Sad Songs for Dirty"
"the turn of the 20th century, began in a San Francisco apartment, in 1971. John Maher, a self-proclaimed ""bum"" and drug addict, and a former member of drug rehabilitation program, Synanon, was the principal founder, with three friends from Synanon, and the help of attorney Mike Berger. Maher once said, ""I could either be a bum or a great social leader. I failed as a bum, so I had no options."" The project drew inspiration and methods from Synanon, from which Maher had parted ways after realizing that members were not expected to ever leave. Maher couldn't get a loan"
"Andreas Baader Berndt Andreas Baader (6 May 1943 – 18 October 1977) was one of the first leaders of the West German left-wing militant organization Red Army Faction, also commonly known as ""the Baader-Meinhof Group"". Andreas Baader was born in Munich on 6 May 1943. He was the only child of historian and archivist Dr. Berndt Phillipp Baader and Anneliese Hermine ""Nina"" (Kröcher). Berndt Baader served in the German Wehrmacht, was captured on the Russian Front in 1945, and never returned. Andreas was raised by his doting mother, aunt, and grandmother. Baader was a high school dropout and a bohemian"
"the Zionist Organization of America, the Israel Policy Forum, the American Jewish Committee, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Americans for a Safe Israel, American Friends of Likud, Mercaz-USA, and Hadassah. Fifty-one of the largest and most important come together in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, whose self-described mission includes ""forging diverse groups into a unified force for Israel's well-being"" and working to ""strengthen and foster the special US-Israel relationship"" Stephen Zunes, in a response to Mearsheimer and Walt, lists ""Americans for Peace Now, the Tikkun Community, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, and the Israel Policy Forum"""
"Hearts & Flowers Hearts & Flowers was a Los Angeles folk rock club band, perhaps most significant as one of the groups that launched the career of Eagles' founding member and guitarist-songwriter, Bernie Leadon. The lineup included Larry Murray (vocals, guitar), Dave Dawson (vocals, guitar, autoharp), and Rick Cunha (vocals, guitar). The individual members met at the ongoing Monday night jam sessions being held at The Troubador over which Murray presided. Cunha and Dawson, who played in a duo, were newcomers as recent transplants to the area from Hawaii. After a few informal picking sessions, the trio gelled and started"
"Fred Meissner Fred F. Meissner (November 10, 1931 – September 18, 2007) was an American geologist and engineer who contributed to the fields of geology, geophysics, engineering, petroleum engineering, geochemistry, mineralogy, physics, mining, economic geology, and fishing. Meissner was an honored exploration geologist, college professor at the Colorado School of Mines and consultant, and a pioneer of the concept that methane gas could be extracted from coal beds (see coal bed methane extraction). He was the 2008 recipient of the Sidney Powers Memorial Award. He also received the Grover Murray Distinguished Educator Award in 2005, the Mines Medal in 1997,"
"by a group of eight black civil rights leaders - Keith Boykin, Mandy Carter, Jasmyne Cannick, Donna Payne, Frank Leon Roberts, Sonya Shields, Roddrick Colvin, and Maurice Franklin. The formation of the organization was announced during a press conference held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Initially the group came together to challenge support from African American religious and civil rights leaders for Republican-led efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. Instead, the group began raising money to place advertisements promoting same-sex marriage in the African American media. Within three years, the group had created"
"the Americas, a nonprofit organization founded by Woody Jenkins and his wife, the former Diane Aker. FOA was a ""non-political"" group which attempted to establish humanitarian programs in Latin America to help the people overcome poverty, natural disasters, or war. The group became a major relief organization with principal operations based in Honduras along the Nicaraguan border. Jenkins and Richey are members of the Council for National Policy, a conservative think-tank. The group also includes Nelson Bunker Hunt of Texas, Phyllis Schlafly of Missouri, and until his death, Paul Weyrich, a Washington, D.C.-based political activist. In his freshman year in"
"""Manifest"" on Plug Research. The repetitive nature of their music is inspired by trains and railroads. Chessie (band) Chessie is an American experimental music group consisting of Stephen Gardner and Ben Bailes. Gardner started Chessie in 1994, while he was a member of the Washington, D.C. post-rock band Lorelei. His first full-length as Chessie, ""Signal Series"", was issued in 1998 and was named Best Dance and DJ Album that year by Amazon.com. In 2000 Gardner was joined by Bailes and they have since worked as a duo. While ""Overnight"" received critical acclaim and a spot on a ""New York Times"""
"months. Shiloh disbanded in 1971 over the band's leadership and creative differences between Henley and Bowden, In Los Angeles, Henley met Glenn Frey as they were both signed to the same label (Frey was signed to Amos Records, together with J. D. Souther, as the duo Longbranch Pennywhistle), and they were recruited by John Boylan to be members of Linda Ronstadt's backup band for her tour in 1971. Touring with her was the catalyst for forming a group, as Henley and Frey decided to form their own band. They were joined by Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon who also played"
"The Order (white supremacist group) The Order, also known as the (German for ""Brothers Keep Silent"") or Silent Brotherhood, was a white supremacist terrorist organization active in the United States between September 1983 and December 1984. The group raised funds via armed robbery. Ten members were tried and convicted for racketeering, and two for their role in the 1984 murder of radio talk show host Alan Berg. The Order was founded by Robert Jay Mathews in late September 1983 at Mathews' farm near Metaline, Washington. Mathews was baptized into the Mormon faith as a high schooler. He formed the ""Sons"
"The Order (white supremacist group) The Order, also known as the (German for ""Brothers Keep Silent"") or Silent Brotherhood, was a white supremacist terrorist organization active in the United States between September 1983 and December 1984. The group raised funds via armed robbery. Ten members were tried and convicted for racketeering, and two for their role in the 1984 murder of radio talk show host Alan Berg. The Order was founded by Robert Jay Mathews in late September 1983 at Mathews' farm near Metaline, Washington. Mathews was baptized into the Mormon faith as a high schooler. He formed the ""Sons"
"the United States, Canada and Eastern Europe. The music is distributed online, by underground dealers through peer to peer networks or purchased from music labels in the United States and in some European countries where their music is legal (mostly in Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom). Michael Regener, Landser's singer and guitarist, started a gang of neo-Nazi rockers called Vandalen in East Berlin in 1982. The Vandalen advocated a return to Odinism. In 1991, the band that would become Landser were formed by Soren B (vocals and guitar), Andreas L (bass) and Horst S (drums). This proto-Landser were non-political"
"Yukon Kornelius Yukon Kornelius is a rock music supergroup. It consists of bassist Stefan Lessard from the Dave Matthews Band (the anchor member), singer/guitarist Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies, singer/guitarist Adam Gardner from Guster, and drummer Eric Fawcett from Spymob (billed for the first show as a special guest, but billed in 2009 as part of the band). The band's name comes from Yukon Cornelius, a character in ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"". The band's shows have so far been known for including special guests. The band was originally put together for charitable purposes when the members were together for a"
"at the Theatre Guild of Acting. Here he encountered once again Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg. Strasberg was to become another of the century's most influential acting theorists and the father of method acting, an acting technique derived, like Meisner's own, from the system of Konstantin Stanislavski. The three became friends. In 1931, Clurman, Strasberg, and Cheryl Crawford (another Theatre Guild member) selected 28 actors (one of whom was Meisner) to form the Group Theatre. This company exerted an influence on the entire art of acting in the United States. Meisner summered with the Group Theatre at their 1936 rehearsal"
"Mary Anne Rietz. As a teenager, he studied arranging with Don Sebesky, jazz piano with Roland Hanna, and studied privately with George Shearing for several years. He credits as strong influences during his teens: Oscar Peterson, George Shearing, Erroll Garner and The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra as well as Elton John, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, and Earth, Wind & Fire. He also studied clarinet, saxophone, and double bass before the age of 15. Beard took his first overseas tour at the age of sixteen with the American Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Hal Schiff. He attended"